Features of migration for freelancers?

Question

Freelance

Greetings Habrasobshchestvo!
There were many articles on the topic of studying abroad, migrating to warm countries, starting a business in the US remotely, etc. etc.
But something I do not remember the article concerning the migration of freelancers.
After all, we all have heard that a freelancer is a free member of a society that lies under a palm tree, flies around the islands and drives around the states in a trailer. Because work is not a wolf - and via the Internet you can work from anywhere. However, it's not like that in real life. There is a visa regime, borders, residence permits and so on and so forth.
Maybe someone had experience and someone can tell the features of migration of a freelancer?
I propose to take the initial data as follows:
— A narrow profile freelancer, maybe a designer, maybe a type designer or a 3D designer, a photographer or a retoucher, or a UI / UX designer for iOS applications - it doesn’t matter - the main thing is that he doesn’t have a crust with an education in this specialty. And there is, for example, a crust of some mekhmat, long overgrown with dust.
- But there is an excellent portfolio, which regularly brings customers, and there are a couple of regular customers to maintain pants.
- Also, for example, there are a couple of stock accounts that bring a small but stable income from “doing nothing”. Or, say, an application in the AppStore, bringing a couple of hundred points monthly.
- From all this, the profit is not too big (definitely not 5-10K$ per month) if you work, but not too small (above 1K$) if you do not work.
- There is no official work, respectively - it is impossible to confirm the experience. Maybe once upon a time I had experience as a programmer, for example, 3 years in total, but that was a long time ago and not true . But there is an individual entrepreneur, pension, taxes, etc. Although it is unlikely that anyone there may be interested.
- There are no super savings (you can’t buy a house in the Canary Islands), it can only be enough for air tickets, troubles with visas, and housing for the first time. But there is a family, perhaps even with children (hooho, what did you want - then everyone sighed)
- And, of course, there is a goal (where would it be without it) - to dump, for example, in the States! To eat at McDonald's, buy iPhones every year, surf the coast and ride a used mustang. Well you get it :)
Actually, how can one move from our cold winter forests (with bears) to warm California with these initial data?
After all, free work and free income (albeit a small one) does not mean “wherever I want, I fly there.” The states do not need another freeloader on their land.
For H-1B, you need an employer, a crust, work experience, etc. You won't last long as a tourist destination. Playing the lottery is also not our method, you can play it for a long time (although it’s worth trying).
Actually, how can such an ambitious freelancer blaze a visa path to the United States, so that he can then receive a permanent residence permit and stay there?
I would be grateful for any personal experience, or for links to such an experience, or even for stories about hearing a ringing somewhere, but don’t remember what it was about.

Answer 1

Important advice in my opinion. Before aiming to migrate somewhere, it is advisable to live in this country for 2-3 months. I somehow wanted to move to one of the countries, but when I lived there for a while I realized that it was not at all mine. So I advise you to choose not according to the conditions for obtaining a residence permit, visas, and other things, but first travel, understand where you want to live, and then look for options on how to move. And there are always options, with the exception of rare cases. And the important point is not to go on vacation, but to go wild, live, get comfortable ... not in a hotel for 2 weeks. Minimum 1 month in an apartment and in a rented house among locals. It seems like a big waste of time, but in fact it saves a lot of it. Such trips greatly expand the horizons and change the worldview.

Answer 2

For example, in Spain there is a type of visa “No Licrativa”, the essence of which is: “having external earnings in the form of 26k euros per year, you can freely obtain a visa and residence permit in Spain.” As far as I remember, this visa does not give you the right to get a job in Spain (i.e. to take a job), but freely allows you to live and spend the money earned by freelancing))). Perhaps in other (cheaper countries) there is something similar.

Answer 3

There was a habrakamp about moving
habrahabr.ru/post/151166/
there you can ask what migration to most countries is about.
In the first habrakamp, ​​I wrote a lot about moving to Thailand
habrahabr.ru/post/148795/

Answer 4

Accumulate 500k-1000k $ and get out of this program in the USA as an investor. Difficult, but possible, especially with the professions you indicated.

Answer 5

List of countries whose citizens can visit as tourists USA:
Andorra
Hungary
Norway
Australia
Iceland
Portugal
Austria
Ireland
San Marino
Belgium
Italy
Singapore
Brunei
Japan
Slovakia
Chile
Latvia
Slovenia
Czech Republic
Liechtenstein
South Korea
Denmark
Lithuania
Spain
Estonia
Luxembourg
Sweden
Finland
Malta
Switzerland
France
Monaco
Taiwan
Germany
Netherlands
Great Britain
Greece
New Zealand
There is not a single CIS country among them. Here a friend was helped to get a visa to the USA: https://estavisa.com.au/